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...German Austria at $800,000,000. The sweeping Goring decree demanded registration of all Jewish holdings worth more than $2,000 (5,000 marks) and forbade sales and transfers of Jewish property without Government permission. Göring also provided stiff prison terms for recalcitrants using "Aryan" dummies or splitting up their properties. Nazi spokesmen admitted that the decree was a preliminary measure to dispossession and confiscation of what Jewish wealth still remained in Germany...
...when they forced them to perform a burlesque of the goose step through the city's amusement centre. The troopers made Jewish cafe patrons scrub floors and wash windows, and escorted through the streets customers from Jewish stores who were forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, after declaring that by 1942 no Jew would have the opportunity to earn a living in Vienna, warned: "Jews! Abandon all hope. Our net is so fine that you will not find...
...Vienna, Nazis began to purge the 400-year-old Austrian National Library, one of the world's best (1,200,000 volumes), announced that all non-Aryan books would be burned. In Williamstown, Mass., a group of Williams College students, including a grandson of Woodrow Wilson and the editor of the college paper, promptly cabled an offer to buy all the banned books to prevent their being burned. Brooklyn's Borough President Raymond Ingersoll cabled that Brooklyn's public library would be glad to have them, offered to pay transportation costs...
...dictator trying to run things on a strictly authoritarian basis, the devastating technique of Popeye the Sailor-man in dealing with bulldozers is bound to be disturbing. Last week in Berlin Nazi censors decided Popeye's spinachy vigor was getting a mite too rich for Aryan blood, banned one of his latest cinema cartoons, Popeye's Parrot...
...meeting reportedly was inspired by Hitler's plan to burn books of non-Aryan nature in Vienna's National library...